The Practical Nursing Student Who Is Engaged in a Therapeutic

question 17

Multiple Choice

The practical nursing student who is engaged in a therapeutic communication with a patient will have the most difficulty with the technique of:

• A) closed questions.
• B) restating.
• C) using general leads.
• D) silence.

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Definitions:

Standard Error

A statistical measure that describes the accuracy with which a sample distribution represents a population using the standard deviation.

Mean

The mean of a series of numbers, determined by dividing their total sum by the quantity of numbers in the series.

Confidence Interval

A range of values derived from sample statistics that is likely to contain the true population parameter with a given level of confidence.

Standard Error

A measure of the variability or dispersion of a sample statistic from the population parameter it estimates.